israel steps up its bombing of gaza with the death toll now reaching forty five as a ground invasion is being prepared to despite international is forced to mediate peace. this comes as tel aviv maintains it's not targeting civilians and its bombing campaign is highly precise. the rebranded syrian opposition gets a royal welcome in france as the e.u. is expected to discuss whether to openly send weapons to rebels. and the u.k. government's budget handling is under fire after it's revealed that billions of pounds are spent on bank bailouts may all go down the drain.

you're watching live from moscow good to have you with us the gazan death toll from the escalating is widely bombardment has risen to at least forty five of those killed us said to be civilians and as israel prepares a ground invasion the militants are hitting back with rocket attacks meanwhile the arab league has agreed at an emergency meeting to send a delegation to gaza and assess the situation on the ground artie's policia has the latest now from tel aviv. what we are witnessing is a growing casualty count and what we see is that many of the dead and injured are in fact palestinian civilians not tell of it is struggling to explain this particularly in light of the fact that they argue that all they killings are targeted we have heard from the arab league secretary general and have been the other b. he says that tel aviv is committing war crimes that should not go unpunished he

adds to this that all arab nations should reassess any kind of peace treaties that they have with the jewish state we also heard from the egyptian foreign minister who pledged to keep the rougher border crossing between egypt and gaza opened we also with the seeing an increase of a flurry of activity from the international community we have heard for instance from the turkish prime minister that he has spoken with both the russian and the american leadership and he is putting forward a proposal that would see turkey egypt the united states and russia call for and managed to broker some more ten years cease fires between both israel and gaza now also on saturday the two mr foreign minister was in gaza to show support for the hamas leadership we also see egypt playing an increasing nearly three role but of course cairo has a very delicate balance to walk with on the one hand supporting and reflecting the will of the egyptian people which is see themselves as brothers of those that live

in gaza while on the other hand not annoying its international backers such as washington it certainly seems as if a ground invasion is not far off we have witnessed a flurry of activity along the israel gaza border there we have seen israel firing increasing rounds of ammunition from tanks and armored personnel vehicles that have been positioned and moved along the border over the past few days we've also heard from israeli officials who've been meeting with foreign diplomats and they say that they plan to expand their operations so this does seem to indicate that a ground offensive could be in the making we also know that all the roads around gaza have now been sealed and again this would be another indicator that there is some kind of program on the ground that would see an invasion. earlier my colleague bill dodds spoke with the israeli defense ministry spokesman josh huntsman who gave no clear explanation why civilians are being killed in what he called highly precise bombings. but when hamas are hiding rockets beneath mosques and hiding

rockets and missiles within school yards and firing rockets actually next to the very hotel where most of the foreign correspondents are staying you just have to look at all the reports coming out across the world today unfortunately it's a very very difficult predicament and that's why the israeli government uses the most precise munitions is why the israeli army since flies out to the population even before we conduct these precision strikes a lot of minimize civilian what those precise munitions are doing to the people of gaza we want to speak to several governesses civilians who are suffering in this bombing campaign of the moment here's what they had to say let's have a listen and then the civilian population here is. in every house there are about twenty people until quarter to six everyone was asleep. to begin shaking this entire area sixteen killings were bombing innocent harmless people many were injured my family had four injured. and we were listening to the news to find out

what's going on in gaza. yesterday because we wanted to respect what we walk up and rubbed in their brothers you think god all the laws but what should we do now. walls are destroyed. under the rubble as they were do. we were all sleeping parents and me with my sisters in a sixteen missile hits our house we were taken to hospital thank god you're alive but that's how it was going on so what do you say to these people in gaza. well first of all i'd like to point out that actually last night and every night but in particular last night even in the middle of the mission we had air force jets that were flying over and they had a precise target ready to be hit and the hamas organization or other organizations in the region aboard civilians to the location and we diverted the attack we are doing our utmost to protect civilians on both sides while hamas is going out of its

way to not only put their own civilians in harm but attack our civilians on a day to day basis. filmmaker and activist harry fear who's in gaza says israel is using terror tactics in its often serve against palestinians. this is taking the death toll up to now forty five confirmed dead gardens in less than four days the true answer to why is because israel has its mission it has its objectives it's got the people that it wants to kill but the thing is it doesn't care about collateral damage it has the same policy if you like the united states with regard to collateral damage but it's happy to injure dozens of palestinian men women and children as long as it can kill one person who might have helped fire a rocket into israel the food a provision is regular. normal cycle we'll see if there's interruption of that the next handouts us for health of the situation is very severe in this respect the

resistance groups here feel that they have to do something to send a message to israel that it will pay some price if it continues to spill palestinian blood in this way from regional partners they're getting some support i'm talking about the resistance efforts now the general gazan population are getting regional support which is manifest and actually improved recent months and years we're seeing egypt turkey russia etc are providing rhetorical and diplomatic support for the garzon population here who is being besieged bombed. in fact a group anonymous ways a massive virtual attack against israel's military operation even does that taking down almost seven hundred israeli web sites including the foreign ministry page. in public versus government thousands in country supported italo be the stage of anti israel protest to express their fear of a gaza ground invasion we've got all the details on our website.

activists in syria say rebels have taken control of an airport in the country's east after days of heavy fighting against government forces this comes as france us says it will accept an ambassador from the new syrian opposition group the national coalition as the latest western tactic to remove president bashar assad talks in paris focus on the protection of rebel controlled areas aid to refugees and the need for provincial government suited your britain which also lobbies for the new coalition could follow france and turkey in recognizing them on monday the e.u. is expected to discuss official arms deliveries to the country's rebels militias have been fighting against the syrian army for nearly two years with about one

hundred people being killed daily journalist neil clark says libya is under way. what we do is we get together opposition puppets if you like not their heads together call them the government of libya or syria and then we work to end the arms embargoes and very soon we'll be hearing talk i expect no fly zones this is all part of a plan to topple assad actually with western powers actually glary who it's ok for us to arm the rebels in syria but for anybody else around the syrians it's not allowed so it's absolutely appalling their policy we have the constitutional boat back in eighty seven so she and voted for it we had elections in may you know there is a every possibility of a change in syria through the ballot box but the west don't want that because they know the president sorry to popular party probably majority support in syria the last two they want is the people's will in syria to prevail they want to impose by force a puppet government and you know what would happen and leave iraq too if assad is

toppled we have lost in syria more chaos you have more deaths destruction but the west doesn't really care about that he doesn't care what's happening in libya at the moment all he cares about is a new government in damascus which will probably. entire economy links with iran and hezbollah i don't know how you know the move against iraq to take place because it's all about paving the way to war against your own. top flight russian premier league game has been monitored by the players will be to leave the pitch up to fans paid a goalkeeper with a flag but. the outsourcing is great if they can clear people's dead who needed them i think did a good thing to do a resident to take to the streets of new deal to discuss occupy its plans to pale the depths of the sea needed most that's coming up on the brain.

catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas all of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me working hard only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies stay in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c. won't have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u.

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this is our team the u.k.'s government's handling of its banks bailout has come under fierce a criticism after it was claimed that the six to six billion pound spend to rescue lloyds t.s.b. and the royal bank of scotland may never be recovered the report from and pisa says the british taxpayer have already lost two billion keeping another financial institution afloat sara firth's reports. this is all focused around the public accounts committee investigation into the sale of northern rock that was the bank that if you close your mind a couple of years back was one of the first to get the big banking bailout is

estimated that for northern rock for taxpayers a set of these around two hundred billion but that's not the worst of it because of yes and lloyds bank oh also had a lot of typos money funded into those bailouts and the taxpayers could be set to release a staggering sixty six billion pounds on that is very very hard to wrap your head around those figures so we're going to try and compare it really the amount that was put into those bailouts to what we have in the moment spending on social welfare such as pensions education health care and defense these figures coming at a time when everyone here is struggling in a daily we're talking to people who are really struggling to survive in the country in the midst of this very very tough economic times and you kind of got this it was a good report very hard hitting report telling us that there was a monumental collective failure that the treasury was unable to pull the respond

because they lack the right skills and understanding so it really sucks a little bit of the billion sorry guys we've lost that seven sixty six billion you know we weren't quite up to the job one of the great the warning at the very beginning with the taxpayer's line and i'm doing now by a campaign manager robert oxley thank you for joining us today these types of stories always make me so angry because you know every day we're covering stories where people are struggling with a living wage in the a they spots the pensions that you know a tax is a rising all the time and then you have this report showing that you know sixty six billion could be lost i mean it's just chiefly responsible with taxpayers' money well this report is a damning indictment of politicians to spoil their woolly words. that we were going to make money out of the banks and that propping up the banks would be you know it would be ok and there was a chorus of people from both sides of the political divide saying you know we need to back up about really what's happened is we've lost billions of pounds and basically allowed politicians to gamble other people's money and lo and behold

those politicians have got very good result as is always the case when politicians are spending other people's money it's incredible how often those in power manage to get every major crisis wrong and i think we're seeing the moment in a rejection in the way that politics at westminster is out of touch the point here is it was the writing was on the wall whether any lessons well actually of course remains to be seen but taxpayers they think they absolutely whopping losses at the moment at least a lot of people saying you know we saved the banks he's going to save us. some world news in brief now this fifty one children have been killed off the plane crash into a school bus south of the egyptian capital a local doctor said that many of the victims waged between four and six the accident reportedly happened because the railroad crossing wasn't close while the train sped towards it egypt's transport minister has resigned following the crash. around five thousand police officers took to the streets of madrid in

a prohibited protest angry over a new round of austerity in spanish government has imposed harsh cuts aimed at saving one hundred fifty billion in the next two years in exchange for a rescue loan from the e.u. to help the country's banks rally comes just three days after an anti us charity strike started in spain joining other parts of the e.u. suffering from strikes including portugal italy belgium and greece. the un has begun the helicopter attack on a rebel group in the east of the democratic republic of congo known as m twenty three whose rose up against the country's government last april tensions heightened in the region last tuesday after uganda close its border with congo claiming the rebels are using toll fees to fund the military operations fighting in the country first began in one thousand nine hundred eighty with the death toll reaching over five million making it the deadliest conflict since world war two.

russian premier league football clash between denom all moscow and reigning champions senate of st petersburg was abandoned after dinner goalkeeper was hit by a flare thrown from the strength of his arch is sean thomas with the details anton shroom who is the goalkeeper for general moscow has been injured doctors have looked at him and they say that he has been blinded by this incident in prosperity one i took you back through this it matches between st petersburg. and it took place in the he would be area which is in the moscow region fans from st petersburg started putting the pitch with fireworks and flares one of those flares or fireworks went off in the face of the goalkeeper he went down on the pitch in pain and then after he was down on the grass and they had stopped the game it is reported that the fans continued to pelt objects at the goalkeeper at that time so

the decision was made by the officials and the referees who stopped that game it's unclear whether or not that game will be continued at a later date or if it will be given a technical defeat if you will now tensions between st petersburg fans and moscow fans have gone on since around two thousand and eight they've been at a high level at that time there was a banner that was placed at a game in st petersburg that was questionable got fans upset and more recently in september between a game between a torpedo and you know there was a similar incident with fireworks being thrown onto the field but much worse at that time and in the same month fans then attacked their own headquarters saying that if the team doesn't play better they will start destroying property as well so there's a big problem basically between a football fans and the teams that they supposedly support but their actions at this point in time of war being more disruptive to the game than being helpful. as of now there are no laws in russia that are designed to protect football teams or

to punish fans right now that is being talked about as a possibility in the near future. occupy wall street might have finally found a way to save america's troubled ninety nine percent the new charity will get rid of american citizens debts and president to hit the streets of new york to find out if people believe in it. started by the people behind the occupy wall street rolling jubilee is a project that is buying up debt just like a collection agency would but instead of collecting on it there absolving the debt in an effort to liberate america from the chains of debt is this ingenious all or a way to let slackers off the hook from responsibility this week let's talk about that depends on where the funds are coming from crowd sourced crowd sourced yeah crowdsourcing is great if they can clear people's definite need it then i think

that's the good thing to do are you into at. take that as a yes not not a lot but and you know a little bit well if you're below i'm not sure that they won't go right back in again so i think people need to responsible for their own actions were there to good. i still understand what they're about to drive me crazy occupy wall street does well they've destroyed a whole bunch of public property with their movie they've paid for that why don't they pay for that the taxpayers have to pick up what's the catch there is no catch there's absolutely no catch other than the system probably doesn't want them to do this because then people are free and clear that like a good idea to you. but i'm not going to buy my debt from the u.k. i mean i know someone who went to ever got to live for a while and they were boarded every day with ever time and so what they don't have and they said they never felt so wealthy or well to do as it living in africa they weren't every day you know boarded with what they didn't have yeah it would be nice

if companies took a little bit of the responsibility for their advertising and marketing and also for the credit card companies who hand out cards that make people that campaign for it to kids they giving to kids in college that's a big problem yeah it's unethical yeah it is and we're just spending a limb or nine eleven what what do they say don't stop shopping. because we got a. this big machine rolling but it's a big isn't this going to just collapse in on itself anyways i mean can we just continue to buy and buy and buy forever and without ever saving anything so what's going to be the massive change a little over i mean i think it's an economic rollover i think we're seeing it now we've got economic crisis in every country around the world whether or not you think rolling jubilees sounds like a good idea the bottom line is they're only mission is to help the common good not wall street profits which to me is always a movement to get behind. coming

up when we take a look at how odd can serve as ammunition in the battle for peace and justice that's after the break here on r t. the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the vocal dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe empowers the local city of volgograd and

sends lots more electricity to moscow the hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the revelent this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar but in the president of the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stocked fish swimming up river to the spawning grounds. within a year all these houses would have gone fallen into the river depending on how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines are on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb. control of the river flow by the plant has made building on the shoulders floodplain more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the

fish that need it now but last the voice of the voters of color jay might start being heard. the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga battle. meaning that the mighty vogue is treated with the respect it deserves. for the. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.

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a syrian citizen it's my responsibility to work hard on the music of this country. len i want to present it to people who are convinced that syria is some. terrorist country. we can help politicians through music when you develop culture in your country you are working through issues in the world of politics. the now you can see yes this is the best message we can send to the rest of the world to say come and see what syria is what it says and what it has.

not. since i was young i have loved arabic calligraphy and i believe or should have a message. of justice means that the rates of the people. should be returned to them no. good or bad and then. after that there should be no more revenge. and i don't want to be an oppressed who becomes an oppressor.